I have been missing the Tuesday prayer requests and wondered if anyone would like to join me so we can continue this in SueB's absence. Please post your prayer requests and lets all join in and offer prayers of support for those the Lord touches our heart to pray for.

thankyou onedayatatime for continueing this in SueB's absence.<BR>Life is such a mess and everything so messed up cause of all this, all i can ask is pray, please just pray for us. God knows the specifics, that's all that counts.<BR>thanks again.<BR><P>------------------<BR>Irene

And where is our fearless leader, hw? SueB posted on EN today. She knows we are praying. <P>My prayer request: for me to have the words and courage to share my testimony with my husband.

Oh you are such a nag, Karenna! <P>Yes, I am back, spent a weekend at a Women's retreat learning about Grace. I am at 3 weeks of no cigarettes and though I feel proud of that and determined to continue, the depression that occurs about this time is building up. In the past, this is where I failed and returned to smoking. Now, I feel like I may as well get these dumb tears out of the way so they will leave me alone....but I also am wise enough to know that I am not in a good place so my MD ordered paxil yesterday for me.<P>I am doing a lot of grieving, recognizing that my marriage may never be what I thought it would be and yet at the same time must recognize that my H feels similar grief, just a different spectrum. I do know that if he doesn't begin to own his stuff, we won't make it. I am on self-care and nurture mode, looking into activities to serve the body which will help with my need to be a giver stuff. I am learning more about respect including self-respect.<P>I will begin attending an Overcomers Outreach group on Thursday. I guess my main prayer request is that I can learn how to cover my H in love without covering up or making excuses for inappropriate behavior and that I can be quicker in my awareness that my H is trying to push buttons and that I can not hook into or react when this occurs.<P>And I think that HW is our mighty prayer warrior rather than me. I hope that she is doing well and pray that she is experiencing a lifetime of peace in spite of the turkeys around her. I will write soon HW, but I do not forget to pray for you.

Hi everyone. Thanks for thinking of me. I have been working on finals and other asundry stuff as this is my last semester of school (two years has gone fast!). I am still praying and thinking of you all. <P>I have also been doing a lot of self analysis and learning a lot about my self. Hey, you think when you go to counseling that the counselor is counseling you, well believe me you are having an impact on your counselor too. Everyday I am challenged to look at myself and make sure I am keeping my stuff out of their stuff. God has led me to some wonderful insights, He is the mighty counselor.<P>I am so glad to hear from you Sue and look forward to emailing with you.<P>I pray for my h to be restored into relationship with Jesus, and I pray that he will not continue down the course he has started. He mentioned the D word two weeks ago. I probably won't fight it, but I have made it known that I don't agree. It is in the Lord's hands. The Lord has been so wonderful leading me more and more to give it all to him. When my h mentioned it, I was calm and confident.<P>So pray that we will not have to take a step toward D, and that my h will be transformed by our Savior, Jesus. I pray that if it does lead down that path, that the Lord continue to protect and provide for my daughters and myself. I will be looking/needing a job, possibly a new place to live and everything that comes with it. I am not worried about this, because I know that the Lord already has the perfect job waiting for me and that if we are to move the Lord already has the perfect place for us to live.<P>Thanks for starting the thread. Praise the Lord for He has us just where He wants us, and He is standing right beside us.<P>thanks, in Christ, Amen.

Hi All,<P>Sounds like old home week so guess I'll pipe in! Been so long I forgot my password and had to look it up. Great to hear from SueB and HW our "dynamic duo". Now all we need is Rootbeer and it will be perfect!<P>I am doing fine. Have a great job which I returned to after 4 years of grieving. Seems you can't outgive the Lord. I gave up the job for my marriage and God gave it back only with more position and higher wages! <P>I truly believe my h and I are over the hump, finally! I will always treasure the prayer and support I have received on this forum but I know that I can't continue to be a regular. I still have friends here so I must lurk to see how they are doing. I love you all and will pray for you as God brings you to mind.<P>Hang in there everyone......HE IS ABLE!!!!!!!!<P>Blessings, Taj<P>------------------<BR>"Perfect love casts out fear" I John 4:18

Father, we place Scared & Lonely before you. Your promises are awesome and you promise to be near the brokenhearted. Please be near to S & L and provide her with all that she needs. We believe that nothing is impossible with you and we place S&L's H in your hands and ask that you turn his heart towards you, that you place your loving care over this situation and provide this family with all that it needs in this time. <P>Father, Karenna desires to have the courage and the words to share her testimony with her H. We ask that you provide the opportunity for her to share and that you prepare her H's heart to accept your truth. Provide her with the perfect words and lead her in her timing. We thank you for the testimony of all those here, and we ask that it would be a witness to you and your love. You are an awesome God.<P>Father, each of us is struggling with learning how to act as you would have us act, in love. Sue B desires to love her H as you would have her love him. Father, you love us in such an awesome way, supporting and correcting, nurturing, and understanding. She asks for strength to keep from reacting. I know this weakness, too and know that only you can help us to not react. Teach us to keep our eyes upon you at the moment when we are most drawn away and into our own hurts and sorrows.<P>hw desires her H to be restored to you. We know that this is your desire for him as well. He has given his heart to you and knows you, we ask that the holy spirit witness to his heart that he will no longer be able to deny the truth. Draw him to you and bind his feet to the path that you have chosen for him. Loose him from the destractions that the enemy provides. Let them be as ashes in his mouth. Father, be with her and her daughters. You hate divorce and we know that is not your will. We are placing this situation before you and we believe you for reconciliation of the marriage and her h to you. <BR>Father, we thank you for the work that you are doing in AW's marriage. We thank you that the work you have begun in this marriage will be completed for your glory. Thank you for the good news that Taj has to share and we thank you that she knows the source of it, that you are providing the abundance and joy that she now has. Thank you for the women who post here. Thank you for the fellowship that we have, with you as our common source. Father, you are awesome, we see your love and thank you for your faithfulness. We ask these things in Jesus name Amen<p>[This message has been edited by onedayatatime (edited March 21, 2001).]

Abba Father,<P>We thank You for the greatest love we could ever receive, Your Son, and what He accomplished on the cross! We do not deserve such a rich, absolute, complete and satislfying love, but You love us more than we can love. We praise You for such mysteries and miracles. We ask that You open our eyes to these all around us each day.<P>Let us desire to be where You have us and not to run from Your loving discipline, but receive instruction with the love that You administer it with. Lord, we do desire to act as Your children, and to love others as You would love us, change our hearts so that we may begin to see Your children as You do. So often we see what is wrong instead of what is right.<P>Lord, thankYou for each praying wife and woman here, Lord. They are so faithful to You and to their families, desiring to do Your will. Each struggles but each in a different way. Lord, I pray that each woman comes to see Your powerful presence in their struggles, that You are waiting to fill each of our needs, when we are ready to declare our total dependence on You. Lord, we can do nothing, but with You we can do all things. Lord, only You can change our hearts. Lord, change our hearts to do and to act according to Your good purposes for our lives.<P>Lord I lift up all the husbands. Lord as wives and children of God we desire to stand in the gap for our husbands and children and ask that You bring the Holy Spirit to them powerfully so that they can no longer deny their need for Your saving grace. Touch their hearts and put the mind of Christ int their hearts. Wash them with the blood of Christ, and surround them with hedges of thorns and protect them from all evil and bind those behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, actions, habits, desires, strongholds and idols that are not from or of You. Loose in them the mind of Christ and the desire to read the Bible and to know You. Loose in them the desire to bring their families together united in a saving knowledge of Jesus. Lord, change their hearts to desire to reconcile their relationships with their wives. Lord, bring Godly Christian men into their lives to lead and to mentor them in a relationshoip with You. Lord, instruct them while they walk, talk, ride and even while they sleep. Lord we pray that the Blood of Jesus wash them clean and protect them from all that seeks to blind them from seeing their need for You and their sin that ensnares them. Only You can save them, but we stand in the gap for them by Your authority,Jesus.<P>Lord we desire Your instruction to guide us and break the strongholds that are preventing us from being fully in Your will and that keeps us stuck in a ho-hum relationship with You. Lord, help any unbelief we still hold and clear our minds of the clutter that distracts us. Lord, let us be good stewarts of all You have given us, money, resources, children, our time, and service to You. Lord bring us into a right standing with You. Work in our hearts in new ways that will amaze and astound You.<P>Lord, in all things let us each seek You. Let us extend fellowship and encouragement to each other. Let us increase our faith and our thirst for you. Let us seek our source of strength, comfort, hope, forgiveness, peace, grace, love in the only place that our needs can truly be met, in You, Father. Let us rest all our worries and cares at Jesus feet and walk away praising You for Your amazing love for us.<P>Lord, let us praise You through our our day. Remembering that "You inhabit our praises and then the chains that seek to bind us, fall helplessly behind us, when we praise You."<P>Lord we love You, and thank You with humble and longing hearts. There is none other like You. You are perfect and give us perfect love. What a blessing, such grace, how deep Your love for us, in Your Son, Jesus. <P>Lord I lift this prayer up into Your arms and lay it at the alter, knowing that You hear our prayers and desire to answer them. Lord I pray in agreemenet with Oneday and all the other women. Lord we ask these things to show the world the power of of the God we pray to, because You deserve all the Glory, Honor and our Praise! Praise Be to Our Lord for He is Worthy! In Jesus name, Amen.<P>